encephalomyelitogenic

English

Alternative forms

• encephalo-myelitogenic

Etymology

encephalo- +‎ myelitogenic

Adjective

encephalomyelitogenic (not comparable)

1. (pathology) Tending to rouse, or to be roused by encephalomyelitis.
   • 1956, Kenneth C. Smithburn, Yellow Fever Vaccination, World Health Organization - The Michigan University Press, page 164

     It was concluded, therefore, that the yellow fever vaccination had activated some encephalomyelitogenic virus latent in the affected children.

   • 1985, Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, Neurologie et Psychiatrie - Volume 23, The California University Press, page 61

     In this context, exposure to house dogs, especially in childhood, might be an easy way for human contamination with a heterogeneous morbillivirus which is highly encephalomyelitogenic.

   • 1976, Zeno Simon, Quantum Biochemistry and Apecific Interactions, Abacus Press, page 187

     Of the series mentioned before, all except the last four have been used together with eight relative meningogenic activities of amino acid substitution derivatives in a^[sic] encephalomyelitogenic undecapeptide.